These contributions, interesting In their own right , constitute the most egregiously bent thread that has ever been foisted on friam. Am I being rebuked for offering lame Political commentary, or are your guys just clueless?
On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM steve smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > It seems to me they haven’t this through so good. Thousands of NIH, NSF, > and DOE funded scientists out on the international market. Add to that > reduced regulation on advanced scientific equipment and services. Augment > with a general sense of doom and self-interest and alienation from their > country of origin. Sounds like a recipe for foreign-based companies to > scoop them up, if not other governments. I won’t suggest particulars, but > I think it is obvious how this could result in bad outcomes. > > My molecular biologist daughter is in the breach/sights of this > nonsense. She dedicated her career to 3rd-world focused virology (flavi > like West Nile, Dingue, Zika) and is now faced with the triple-whammy of > reduced funding/interest in third-world problems, reduced *health* funding, > and the spirit that suggests as a woman in science she might somehow have > gotten her funding through DEI biases. She is not a candidate for > "defecting" to China or Russia in this context but has been made crazy by > watching her mid-career colleagues defect from academic research to > profit-focused big pharma. She got pulled off Flavi's to chase Coronas > for a year or more because her institution had more funding than they > could spend and her funding was a little more fungible... I think she > can (probably) hang in there through the current storm (years) but not > clear and it might actually be better for her (career) to move to a > European Institution (though I don't know if that is even possible given > what EricS suggested about demand/supply. > > After the fall of the Soviet Union, I participated in a brief project > reviewing US State Dept proposals by (former) Soviet scientists seeking an > alternative to becomeing rogue nuclear scientists for who knows? Seems > like we are about to have our own problem of that nature? > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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